Nancy Dubuc Quotes

Time can be dissected easily: an hour can be cut up in many ways. Fifteen minutes on this memo, a five-minute walk to another meeting, 30 minutes at that meeting and then 10 minutes debriefing. Oh, and maybe a quick phone call on the walk to that meeting. The busy are expert at dissection: that's how they make it all fit.

I have schedules that separate everything.

We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

I think of all my time as existing in 15-minute blocks. Most people think in terms of 30-minute chunks, but I've found that when I free up more time, I waste it.

I adjust my priorities according to the most important project I'm involved in at the time.

I plan my life in 15-minute sections.

It's important to learn how to use your small bits of time. All those begin to count up. It's not the long amounts of time you have that are important. you should learn how to use your snatches of time when they are given to you.

In the mornings, I try to spend anywhere from 15 to 60 minutes with my son. Failing that, I try for 30 to 60 minutes together at the end of the day. I try to make that work, but if I can't, I just move on. You can't beat yourself up about it.

We parcel up time into years and months and days because without compartmentalisation the tundra of time is impossible to navigate.

I have a timetable, but no routine.

But I have learned that you can't just create your own timetable and will it to come true.

The great myth of our work-intense era is 'quality time.' We believe we can make up for the loss of days or hours, especially with each other, by concentrated minutes. But ultimately there is no way to do one-minute mothering. There is no way to pay attention in a hurry.

For me, time is everything, because from the time you wake up you have to have your heart and soul in this. You have to work through the day, you have to go to the gym, you have to eat, and yet you have to work as fast as possible to get home and get rest before the next day begins again.

Each lost day has its patron saint!

Each morning sees some task begin, each evening sees it close.

The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.

I was told I got 10 measly minutes, but just in case, I brought 13 hours worth of material.

I have a hard time with scheduling, and with hunkering down and planning. That's always been a struggle for me.

The first indication that we are killing our dreams is lack of time.

Perhaps, after all, there is something in the theory that only the ultra-busy can find time for everything.

I think ultimately it's just time management. You're just doing a lot more stuff. You're doing the same stuff, you're writing and you're producing, but it just comes with a lot of other things. A lot of long term thinking and plotting things out for the future, bringing elements together. I have a lot of support.

You're better off missing a bus or an airplane once in a while than you are getting there too early all the time.

I believe the twenty-four hour day has come to stay.

Day-to-day scheduling is always a conflict. You go, "Oh, I want to go to that awards show because when am I ever going to do that again?" But then you go, "Yeah...except this other thing is more important." It's more the micro day-to-day stuff that becomes a daily task as opposed to worrying too much about the career.

Oh god, I wish. I really wish. If I'm time-poor, which I usually am, that's the first thing to go. And I know it shouldn't be, I know I should be really regular, but I like to get it done as quickly as possible.